Thoughts on Licences

Hi all,

Did some thinking last night prompted by what Sylvain wrote
and I believe if we approach the issue of protecting the
publisher's investment more directly we will obtain a
better result.

Basically, we want to say that no commercial entity can
compete against our chosen publisher (publishers seem fine
about non-commercial competition at this point in time). 
The current "4th amendment" attempts to address this
indirectly by disallowing compilations, which doesn't
directly address the publisher's concern and has unintended
side effects.  So I propose an amendment thusly:

Thou shalt not distribute a compilation of material from
the Cookbook by any means, including electronically or in
print, for any reason except personal use without the prior
consent of the SchematicsEditorsGroup.

This means people can set up private mirrors of the
Cookbook, print out copies for their friends and so on,
without anyone getting in trouble.  Which seems to cover
the main issues.  The final issue is: what if we all get
assasinated in a coup d'etat (as is wont to happen to any
successful Junta)?  Well, we could add a clause to address
this:

The 4th amendment will no longer be held in effect should
the SchematicsEditorsGroup be dissolved.

But people, just trust us!  :-D

Noel

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